"Stop! This is the Governor's Mansion. No approach without permission!"

Two guards crossed their guns in front of the gate, blocking Guan Liyuan's way.

Although he looked big, but... this is already the Grand Line, and a height of three meters and five is not uncommon, so the two guards did not waver.

But at this moment, Guan Liyuan took out a token engraved with "crocodile": "I want to see your governor."

Seeing the governor's token, the two guards knew that it was a distinguished guest, so they put their spears back at their sides, stood up straight and said, "Come in!"

After that, the guard on the left stepped forward to open the door, and also contacted the master in the Governor's Mansion, a long-faced man with blue glasses and a very "weird" hairstyle, who immediately came to lead Guan Liyuan...

"You are Mr. Guan that the Governor is waiting for, right? Welcome, welcome." The man with blue glasses said as enthusiastically as possible, but his shrill and hoarse voice was not very comfortable.

In fact, the man with blue glasses was also very confused. With the identity of the Governor, what kind of distinguished guest would make him so concerned? Originally, he thought that those people were as famous as the Governor-General, but everyone knows what they look like, but now it seems that they are not...

Walking in the Governor-General's Mansion, which is as magnificent as the royal palace, Guan Liyuan did not have any strange emotions, nor did he intend to explain to Lan Jingnan. Soon after, he was taken to a building that looked like a pyramid.

"The Governor-General said that he wants to meet with you alone. I'm sorry I won't follow you." Lan Jingnan said and made a "please" gesture.

After Guan Liyuan walked into the building, he found that in addition to the luxurious decoration and the throne on the tall steps, there was also a luxurious large pool with several huge crocodiles in it...

Why is it a "luxurious" large pool?

The land that Guan Liyuan set foot on is Alabasta, the largest country in the sea!

Even though a large area of ​​the country is covered with deserts that are not suitable for human survival, it still has a population of 30 million and a war potential of millions. However, the country was still short of water three years ago. Even after the opening of the first large-scale desalination plant three years ago, water is still a very precious thing.

"Governor Crocodile? Tsk tsk, you seem to be having a good time recently..." Guan Liyuan said while looking at Crocodile who was washing his feet in the crocodile pool - does he really not feel uncomfortable? A piece of sand is washing his feet!

"Happy? I'm already thirsty... How long will it take for the time you mentioned to come? If this goes on, I can't guarantee that I won't lose control one day and do things at my own pace." Crocodile said impatiently, holding a cigarette in his mouth.

That's right, the so-called "Governor" is Crocodile, who is now the Governor of the Western Land of Alabasta and one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea appointed by the World Government! The

man with the blue mirror before is the third captain of the Governor's Office. The so-called weird hairstyle is that this guy braided his hair into a "3", and it looks like he never wants to be promoted in his life.

"Don't worry, some things are very dangerous if you act faster than you think." Guan Liyuan said with a smile.

"I always feel that you are mocking me..." Crocodile's eyes became more and more unhappy.

"Absolutely not, Ivankov didn't tell me anything, hahaha..." Guan Liyuan laughed first.

But before Crocodile was about to explode, Guan Liyuan comforted him: "Okay, I've already come out of Baldigo, doesn't that mean it's a problem? And... I just came back from the Four Seas, and the situation there is not bad. Is there really no problem here? Alabasta is an extremely important part of our plan."

Looking at Guan Liyuan's serious face, Crocodile was extremely suspicious that this guy deliberately mocked him and pretended to be serious to change the subject, but he couldn't help but take up this topic, so he had to say depressedly: "Humph, everything is ready!"

"Oh? Really? But why did I hear that the Nefertari royal family is already suspicious of you and has sent inspectors... and they are two inspectors, one open and one secret?" Guan Liyuan curled his lips.

Crocodile didn't feel strange that Guan Liyuan knew all this, after all, he was a member of the Anbu at the time, and he discovered the inspector in the dark and notified Crocodile in time.

"Tsk... Royal family of Nefertari? If you hadn't been chirping all the time, I would have killed you even if you were a real Celestial Dragon!" Crocodile looked like he was bothered but also had a headache.

Guan Liyuan chose Crocodile to cooperate with him, not only because of his ability, but also because he admired his courage - the Royal family of Nefertari is at least "related" to the Celestial Dragons, and even almost became a Celestial Dragon!

In the original work, the Five Elders had a certain respect for the Royal Family of Nefertari, until King Im wanted to take action against Nefertari, the Five Elders were still a little surprised...

And what about Crocodile?

In the eyes of the Five Elders and King Im, he was probably just a "mere" Shichibukai, right? But he dared to set his sights on Alabasta!

And unlike other pirates, Crocodile has gotten rid of "low tastes".

Although Crocodile also dreams of becoming the "Pirate King", he is definitely not just the Pirate King in Roger's sense - otherwise he wouldn't have been so reluctant to part with Pluto, and even had the goal of controlling Alabasta.

Therefore, Guan Liyuan believed that he dared to kill the Celestial Dragons, but... why couldn't he kill the Nefertari royal family? He should understand the reason!

"Killing the Celestial Dragons or something, there will be opportunities later, but the problem now is the Nefertari royal family. We must maintain a complete and united Alabasta in order to seize the initiative in the future war, otherwise... I don't need to remind you how strong the navy is, and the navy is not all the power of the World Government!" Guan Liyuan reminded.

Crocodile certainly understood this reason. He just said something angry. In the original work, Crocodile was also very tolerant. Otherwise, wouldn't it be easy to kill the Nefertari royal family, which already had no masters? It would take several years, and use the rebels and frame Cobra in various ways... If it was just for Pluto, there was no need to do this.

Guan Liyuan found him four years ago when Crocodile had just heard the news of "Pluto" and planned to "take action" against Alabasta, and through some courtesy (bao) appearance (li) methods, he gained the other party's most basic respect. After a long talk for an afternoon, the cooperation matters were finalized!

Four years ago, some of the revolutionary army pretended to be the survivors of the outer islands who mastered the desalination technology. Crocodile, as a representative, negotiated with the royal family of Nefertari, hoping to exchange the desalination technology for the land for survival...

When Cobra saw the simulated engineering experiment with his own eyes and tasted the desalinated seawater, he immediately agreed to establish the autonomous jurisdiction of this survivors in the western continent.

A year later, another survivor who was good at growing crops in saline-alkali land came to the door...

Half a year later, another survivor who was good at water conservancy engineering and could bring water inland to improve the desert into saline-alkali land came to the door...